Strength Finder 2.0

Achiever

Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Achiever theme have a great deal of stamina and work hard. They take great satisfaction from being busy and productive.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

What makes you stand out?

Driven by your talents, you motivate your friends with your passion for moving ideas from the talking stage to the action stage. Your dedication to various projects rallies numerous individuals to work alongside you. Chances are good that you exhibit a natural aptitude for overcoming difficulties. You are frequently called upon to identify problems and then make needed repairs or implement appropriate solutions. You work so diligently that you ignore all kinds of distractions. It’s very likely that you normally dedicate yourself to acquiring knowledge and gaining skills. You probably devote many hours to mental labor. Because of your strengths, you tend to be a very good adviser to many individuals. When offering suggestions or asking questions, you probably are much more engaged, intense, and involved than usual. By nature, you frequently engage in laborious tasks. You yearn to dedicate yourself to worthy causes or noble purposes. Fortifying the bonds between yourself, the people you know, or even those you will never meet gives your life special meaning.

Strategic

Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Strategic theme create alternative ways to proceed. Faced with any given scenario, they can quickly spot the relevant patterns and issues.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

What makes you stand out?

By nature, you customarily pinpoint the core problems and identify the best solutions. You artfully and skillfully eliminate distractions. This helps people gain a clear understanding of what is happening and why it is happening. You frequently identify ways to transform an obstacle into an opportunity. Because of your strengths, you are innovative, inventive, original, and resourceful. Your mind allows you to venture beyond the commonplace, the familiar, or the obvious. You entertain ideas about the best ways to reach a goal, increase productivity, or solve a problem. First, you think of alternatives. Then you choose the best option. Instinctively, you can design innovative plans. You probably raise issues and identify recurring obstacles as you generate tactical options. Problems and possible solutions become apparent to you. Once you outline action steps, you quickly execute them one by one. You refuse to waste time questioning your ideas after everything has been set into motion. It’s very likely that you pay close attention to what is going on around you. You listen. You quiz people.

You read. You probably take notes on key points. As you accumulate lots of information, you disregard what is unrelated, and pay heed to what is really important. The more you reflect on what you know, the more problems begin to reveal themselves, and eventually solutions start taking shape in your mind. Finally, given the situation, you select the best plan from your list of options. Chances are good that you can reconfigure factual information or data in ways that reveal trends, raise issues, identify opportunities, or offer solutions. You bring an added dimension to discussions. You make sense out of seemingly unrelated information. You are likely to generate multiple action plans before you choose the best one.

Ideation

Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Ideation theme are fascinated by ideas. They are able to find connections between seemingly disparate phenomena.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

What makes you stand out?

Driven by your talents, you occasionally generate novel ideas for campaigns, business ventures, initiatives, or special events. By nature, you sometimes feel comfortable sharing your original ideas with groups. Perhaps they welcome your innovations. Maybe they realize you suggest novel ways of doing things they would never have considered. Instinctively, you are sometimes the team member who generates innovative ideas for programs, processes, enterprises, or assignments. It’s very likely that you occasionally read for the pure joy of it. Perhaps you carry a book, newspaper, or magazine with you just in case you have to wait in line, eat alone, or sit beside a stranger. Quite possibly, the printed word feeds your mind. As a result, you might generate specific kinds of plans, programs, designs, or activities that others describe as original. Chances are good that you sometimes seek out what is new or different. Venturing into unfamiliar territory might appeal to your adventurous spirit.
Now and then, you like to test your limits as a human being in travel, work, sports, or thinking. Even when some people worry about your well-being, perhaps you trust you can take care of yourself.

Activator

Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Activator theme can make things happen by turning thoughts into action. They are often impatient.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

What makes you stand out?

Because of your strengths, you are somewhat comfortable talking about yourself. You may also enjoy listening to people describe their talents, limitations, goals, worries, or successes. Perhaps these insights help you discover what someone thinks or feels. Maybe you acquire information about the individual’s style of thinking, learning, working, playing, problem solving, or studying. It’s very likely that you may generate enough enthusiasm in certain individuals that they become almost as eager as you are to transform an idea into something tangible. Perhaps you are energized, not paralyzed, by opportunities and possibilities. Chances are good that you sometimes inspire your teammates to be as enthused as you are about particular jobs, opportunities, events, causes, or ideas. Instinctively, you want to be in charge. As soon as you have made up your mind, you are eager to get started. People who interfere with your progress probably irritate you. Driven by your talents, you sometimes gravitate to situations where you can be your true self. You might feel life is wonderful when people listen as you share stories about your successes, failures, talents, limitations, hope, or fears.

Futuristic

Shared Theme Description
People who are especially talented in the Futuristic theme are inspired by the future and what could be. They inspire others with their visions of the future.

Your Personalized Strengths Insights

What makes you stand out?

It’s very likely that you are energized by your plans for the coming months, years, or decades. Bringing your ideas to life is an exciting proposition for you. You sense you have the power to transform whatever you think is possible into tangible outcomes. Instinctively, you think a lot about the coming months, years, or decades. You gravitate to projects and study subjects that promise to shape the future. You enjoy talking about possibilities that exist only in your imagination. You probably worry about being left behind if what you know and do were no longer valued or needed. You prefer to be a pioneer and an inventor. Driven by your talents, you intentionally take steps to be the mastermind of your own future. You refuse to leave your destiny to chance. You probably resist placing it in someone else’s hands. You trust your own intelligence and imagination when setting a direction for your life.
Chances are good that you are enthusiastic about the future because visionaries describe it so clearly. Their ideas for products, medicines, or inventions generally increase your determination to do whatever you can to breathe life into their dreams. By nature, you are a visionary thinker. Your vivid mental images of the coming months, years, or decades often impel you to move into action.